It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.
Spread joy. Chase your wildest dreams.
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.
Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
A classical education enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.
There is just one life for each of us: our own.
A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
Do not follow where the path may lead.
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself.
You are the guy who'll decide where to go.
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
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